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WASHINGTON – This afternoon, Devi Rao, Director, DC Office, Director, Supreme Court and Appellate Program for the MacArthur Justice Center released the following statement on today’s United States Supreme Court decision regarding Trump v. U.S.: “One of the central founding principles of our Nation is that the President is not a King. Our Framers believed that no...

“Charles, Larod, Lashawn, and Troshawn are among the scores of kids who the Chicago Police Department has targeted for false arrest and coercive interrogations over the years, leading to Chicago’s reputation as the False Confession Capital of the country,” says Alexa Van Brunt, Director of the Illinois office of the MacArthur Justice Center and counsel for Charles Johnson.

Former DOJ Official, Jonathan Smith, Joins the Team as the Organization's First Vice President and Legal Director.

Last week, the Supreme Court of Delaware unanimously decided that individuals challenging the legality of their criminal convictions can continue pursuing their challenges even if they are released from custody while their cases are pending.

“As a citizen of Jackson who has traced my family’s documented presence in Mississippi back to 1855, I am grateful for the clarity of the state constitution regarding the election of circuit court judges, and I am grateful for the Justices affirming that constitutional requirement.”

Plaintiffs in a putative class action lawsuit, Jones v. City of St. Louis, filed a motion containing a staggering volume of evidence against the St. Louis City Justice Center (CJC), including over 360 use-of-force reports, more than 50 declarations and grievances and video footage of correctional officers macing detainees at point-blank range with “riot-sized” cannisters—often while people are restrained in handcuffs or locked in small cells.

After spending 14 years in prison for a murder he did not commit, Wayne Washington is finally a fully free man.

On Tuesday, Lambda Legal, the MacArthur Justice Center and Shook, Hardy & Bacon sued the Missouri Department of Corrections on behalf of Jane Roe, a formerly incarcerated transgender woman living with HIV, who was put in solitary confinement for over six years between 2015 and 2021 while held at the Jefferson City Correctional Center due to an unconstitutional and discriminatory policy against people living with HIV.

The challenged law requires prior written authorization from the Commissioner of Public Safety or the Chief of Capitol Police to have any event on sidewalks or streets next to any property owned or occupied by a state entity or official.

On Monday, Jackson residents filed a lawsuit in the Chancery Court of Hinds County asking that court to block the implementation of House Bill 1020 because it violates the Mississippi Constitution.